An extra note. I read B. Daniel
Blatt’s manuscript of his novel Calypso’s Cave in 1997, on Labor Day
weekend as I was driving out for my relocation to Minneapolis from Virginia, at restaurant and motel stops. I
did not want to put it down. I read the conclusion in a restaurant in Madison, WI,
and I remember the moment. As for the story, I won’t say more here, other than
for the visitor here to remember what he learned about Homer (and apply that to
the modern world). It’s easy for me to imagine this being made and in the
Golden Globes some year, just like Brokeback. (Proulx’s story). What he says about it is at http://www.neverstopthinking.org/articles_blatt.php
I hope to see more.

Belkin, Aaron and Bateman, Geoffrey.Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:
Debating the Gay Ban in the Military (2003); Kaplan, Danny. Brothers and
Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units (2003);
Le Blanc, Robert: A Marine’s Diary (2009); Frank, Nathaniel. Unfriendly
Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
(2009)

Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the
Secret World of Osama bin Laden (2001)). The Osama bin Laden I Know: An
Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (2006). and Anonymous (Michael Scheuer Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden,
Radical Islam, and the Future of America and Anonymous (Michael Scheuer) Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War
on Terror ; Marshall, Paul; Green, Roberta; Gilbert, Lela; Islam at the
Crossroads: Understanding Its Beliefs, History and Conflicts.; “Anonymous”:
Terrorist Hunter (2003); Suskind, Ron: The One Percent Doctrine (2006)

Blood, Rebecca: The Weblog Handbook:
Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your WeBlog
(2002); Kline, David and Burstein, Dan: Blog: how the newest media
revolution is changing politics, business, and culture. Flynn, Nancy
(American Management Association): Blog Rules: A Business Guide to Managing
Policy, Public Relations, and Legal Issues (2006); Tom Drugan:
Not Just Your Space: A College Student’s Guide to
Managing Online Reputation (e-book); Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the
Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Destroying Our Culture;Hansen, Chris: To Catch a Predator:
Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home; (2007);.Ray,
Audacia: Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads
and Cashing In on Internet Sexploitation (2007); Solove,
Daniel J. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the
Internet (2007); Understanding Privacy (2008); Magid,
Larry and Collier, Anne.Myspace Unraveled: A Parent’s Guide to Teen
Social Networking (2006); Kelsey, Candice M. Generation MySpace: Helping
Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence (2007); Willard, Nancy E. Cyber-Safe
Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the Internet Safely
and Responsibly (2007); Willard, Nancy E. Cyberbullying
and Cyberthreats (2008);McGraw, Jay: Life Strategies for Dealing
with Bullies (2008); Zittrain, Johnathan: The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop
It (2008); Espejo, Roman. Should Social
Networking Sites Be Banned (2008); Zittrain et
al. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
(2008); Greenspan, Aaron. Authoritas:One
Student’s Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era (2007);Mezrich,
Ben: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex,
Money, Genius, and Betrayal (2009); Palfrey, John and Gasser, Urs. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of
Digital Natives (2008); Wolf, Naomi: Give Me Liberty (2008); Boyle, James. The
Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (2008); Doctorow, Cory:
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the
Future of the Future; Livingston,
Geoff: Now Is Gone: A Primer on New Media for Executives andEnrepreneurs (2007); Auletta,
Ken. Googled: The End of the World as We
Know It (2009); Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a
Gadget: A Manifesto (2010); Mayer-Schonberg: Delete: The Value of Forgetting
in the Digital Age (2010); Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the
Internet Is Doing to our Brains (2010); Kirkpatrick, David: The Facebook
Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that Is Connecting the World
(2010); Beal, Andy and Strauss, Judy. Radically Transparent: Monitoring and
Managing Reputations Online (2008)

Dobbs, Lou:War on the Middle Class: How
the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the
American Dream and How to Fight Back;(2006); Exporting America:
Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping Jobs Overseas (2004);Dorgan, Vyron L.
(Sen.), Take this Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead
Politics Are Selling Out America (2006); Lomborg,
Bjorn: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
(2008); Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the
Twenty-First Century (2005, 2006); Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a
Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (2008); Smick,
David M. The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy
(2008); Greenspan, Alan: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
(2007); Gore, Al: The Assault on Reason (2007); Jacoby, Susan: The
Age of American Unreason (2008); Cafferty, Jack. It’s
Getting Ugly Out There (2007); Now or
Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving our American Dream (2009); Karelis, Charles. The Persistence of Poverty: Why the
Economics of the Well-Off Can’t Help the Poor (2007); Lowenstein, Roger. While
America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways,
Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis (2008); Morris,
Charles R. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008);
Perkins, John.Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2005); Klein,
Naomi: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2008);Elshtain,
Jean Bethke. Sovereignty: God, State and Self
(2008); Senge, Peter et al. The Necessary
Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a
Sustainable World (2008).Leeb, Stephen, PhD. The Coming Economic Collapse: How
You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (2007); Gladwell,
Malcolm: Outliers: The Story of Success (2008); Krugman,
Paul. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of
2008 (2008); Blankley, Tony.American Grit: What It Will Take to
Survive and Win the 21st Century (2009); Ramo,
Joshua Cooper, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder
Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It (2009); Levin, Mark R. Liberty
and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (2009); DeMint, Jim. Saving
Freedom: We Can Stop America’s
Slide into Socialism (2009); Zakaria, Fareed: The Post-American World (2008, 2009); Silas
House and Jackson Howard. Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting
Mountaintop Removal (2009); Moisi, Dominique: The Geopolitics of Emotion (2009); Main,
Carla T. Bulldozed: “Kelo”, Eminent Domain, and
the American Lust for Land (2007); Levitt, Steven D & Dubner, Stephen J. Super Freakonomics:
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life
Insurance (2009); Bartlett, Bruce: The New American Economy: The Failure
of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward (2009); Walker, David: Comeback
America (2010); Lewis, Michael: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday
Machine (2010); Joseph, Lawrence E. Aftermath (2010)

Ehrenreich, Barbara: Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting
By in America (2001); Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the
American Dream (2005); Uchitelle, Peter: The
Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences (2006); Shulman, Beth:
The Betrayal of Work: How
Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans (2006);
Shepard, Adam. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Pursuit of the American
Dream

Holobaugh, Jim: Torn Allegiances
(1993); Zuniga, Jose: Soldier of the Year (1995); Mary Ann Humphrey: My
Country, My Right to Serve (1990); Wolinsky, Narc
andSherrill, Kevin: Gays in the
Military: Joseph Steffan versus the United States
(1996); Graham, Robert: Military Secret (1993); Peck, Scott: All
American Boy; Buttino, Frank: A Special Agent:
Gay and Inside the FBI (1995); Burkhe, Robinn: A Matter of Justice: Lesbians and Gay Men in Law
Enforcement (1996), Elzie, Justin: Playing By the
Rules (2010)

Lessig, Lawrence: CODE and the Other Laws of
Cyberspace (2000); CODE Version 2.0 (2006); and Thierer,
Adam and Crews, Clyde Wayne, Jr. Copy
Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age.; Scheff, Sue and
Dozier, John W. Google Bomb (2009) ;Patry, William: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars
(2009); Richard Clarke: Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and
What to Do About It (2010)

Longman, Phillip. The Empty Cradle: How
Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What We Can Do About It
(2004) along with Angelo Bertelo: Fertility
(2000); Santorum, Richard (Senator, R-PA): It Takes a Family (2005); Kennert and Cohen: The American Pageant (2002); Steyn, Adam: America Alone: The End of the World as We
Know It (2006, 2008); Jackson, Richard; Howe, Neil; Strauss, Rebecca;
Nakashima, Keisuke. The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and
Geopolitics in the 21st Century (2008)

Manji, Irshad.
The Trouble with Islam
Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith (2003); Bawer,
Bruce. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from
Within (2006); Merry, Robert W. Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal,
American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition (2005); Chua,
Amy. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred
and Global Instability (2003, 2004); Gartenstein-Ross,
David. My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir (2007); Ehrenfeld, Rachel: Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is
Financed—and How to Stop It (2003, 2005); Simmons, Matthew R. Twilight
in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

Shilts, Randy: Conduct Unbecoming Gays
and Lesbians in the U.S. Military (1993); Rand Corporation (National Defense
Research Institute). Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel
Policy: Options and Assessment (1993).

Tomkiel, Stanley A., IIIThe Social Security Handbook:
4th Edition (2004); Stein, Ben and DeMuth,
Phil: Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably! The Baby Boom
Retirement Crisis and How to Beat It (2007); Damp, Dennis.The Book of U.S. Government Jobs (1986-2008); Lynch, Terry.But I Don't Want Eldercare: Helping
Your Parents Stay As Strong As They Can As Long As They Can(2008)

Roger Scruton: “Sacrilege and
Sacrament”, Don Browning and Elizabeth Marquardt: “What about the Children?
Liberal Concerns on Same-Sex Marriage”, Harold James: “Changing Dynamics of the
Family in Recent European History”, Jennifer Roback
Morse: “Why Unilateral Divorce Has No Place In a Free
Society”

David F. Forte: “The Framer’s Idea of Marriage and Family”,
Hadley Arkes: “The Family and the Law”, Robert P.
George: “What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Marriage, Morality and Rationality”, SeaneaSugrue: “Soft Despotism
and Same Sex Marriage”, Maggie Gallagher: “(How) Does Marriage Protect Child
Well-Being?”; Katherine Shaw-Spadt:
“The Current Crisis in Marriage Law, Its Origins and Its Impact”, M. Bradford
Wilcox: “Suffer the Little Children: Marriage, the Poor, and The Commercial”

I want to mention here also the 2003 Human Rights Campaign
National Equality Award to novelist Michael Cunningham for his 1998 novel The
Hours, inspired by extrapolating from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
This would become the award winning 2002 film The Hours.

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